February 2012 Microsoft Black Tuesday - SANS Internet Storm Center

Overview of the February 2012 Microsoft patches and their status.

#	Affected	Contra Indications - KB	Known Exploits	Microsoft rating(**)	ISC rating(*)
#	Affected	Contra Indications - KB	Known Exploits	Microsoft rating(**)	clients	servers
MS12-008	Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers (Replaces MS11-087)
MS12-008	win32k.sys CVE-2011-5046 CVE-2012-0154	KB 2660465	disclosed vuln.	Severity:Critical Exploitability: Likely	Critical	Critical
MS12-009	Elevation of privilege vulnerabilities in ancillary function driver (Replaces MS11-046, MS11-080)
MS12-009	Ancillary Function Driver CVE-2012-0148 CVE-2012-0149	KB 2645640	no.	Severity:Important Exploitability: Likely	Important	Important
MS12-010	Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer (Replaces MS11-099)
MS12-010	Internet Explorer CVE-2012-0010 CVE-2012-0011 CVE-2012-0012 CVE-2012-0155	KB 2647516	no.	Severity:Critical Exploitability: Likely	Critical	Important
MS12-011	Sharepoint Elevation of Privileges Vulnerabilities
MS12-011	Sharepoint CVE-2012-0017 CVE-2012-0144 CVE-2012-0145	KB 2663841	no.	Severity:Important Exploitability: -	N/A	Important
MS12-012	Remote code execution vulnerability in color control panel
MS12-012	Color Control Panel CVE-2010-5082	KB 2643719	no.	Severity:Important Exploitability: Likely	Critical	Important
MS12-013	Vulnerability in C Run-Time Library Could Allow Remote Code Execution
MS12-013	C Run Time Library CVE-2010-3138	KB 2654428	no	Severity:Critical Exploitability: Likely	Critical	Critical
MS12-014	Vulnerability in Indeo Codec Could Allow Remote Code Execution
MS12-014	Indeo Audio Codec CVE-2010-3138	KB 2661637	no	Severity:Important Exploitability: Likely	Important	N/A
MS12-015	Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Visio Viewer 2010 Could Allow Remote Code Execution (Replaces MS11-089)
MS12-015	Microsoft Office Suites and Software CVE-2012-0019 CVE-2012-0020 CVE-2012-0136 CVE-2012-0137 CVE-2012-0138	KB 2663510	no.	Severity:Important Exploitability: Likely	Important	N/A
MS12-016	Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework and Microsoft Silverlight Could Allow Remote Code Execution (Replaces MS11-069)
MS12-016	.NET Framework CVE-2012-0014 CVE-2012-0015	KB 2651026	no.	Severity:Critical Exploitability: Likely	Critical	Critical

We will update issues on this page for about a week or so as they evolve.
We appreciate updates
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(*): ISC rating

We use 4 levels:
- PATCH NOW: Typically used where we see immediate danger of exploitation. Typical environments will want to deploy these patches ASAP. Workarounds are typically not accepted by users or are not possible. This rating is often used when typical deployments make it vulnerable and exploits are being used or easy to obtain or make.
- Critical: Anything that needs little to become "interesting" for the dark side. Best approach is to test and deploy ASAP. Workarounds can give more time to test.
- Important: Things where more testing and other measures can help.
- Less Urgent: Typically we expect the impact if left unpatched to be not that big a deal in the short term. Do not forget them however.
The difference between the client and server rating is based on how you use the affected machine. We take into account the typical client and server deployment in the usage of the machine and the common measures people typically have in place already. Measures we presume are simple best practices for servers such as not using outlook, MSIE, word etc. to do traditional office or leisure work.
The rating is not a risk analysis as such. It is a rating of importance of the vulnerability and the perceived or even predicted threat for affected systems. The rating does not account for the number of affected systems there are. It is for an affected system in a typical worst-case role.
Only the organization itself is in a position to do a full risk analysis involving the presence (or lack of) affected systems, the actually implemented measures, the impact on their operation and the value of the assets involved.
All patches released by a vendor are important enough to have a close look if you use the affected systems. There is little incentive for vendors to publicize patches that do not have some form of risk to them.

(**): The exploitability rating we show is the worst of them all due to the too large number of ratings Microsoft assigns to some of the patches.

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Johannes

4479 Posts
ISC Handler

Feb 14th 2012

Everything I am reading on the Microsoft page says patch MS12-012 is not applicable for any client operating systems. However, you have it identified as critical. Can you please clarify?

TexISO

19 Posts

Source:
http://marc.info/?l=patchmanagement&m=132925862114053&w=2

Be aware that KB2668562 Silverlight patch MS12-016 has been throwing off 80070643 errors. The update has been identified as having metadata issue by Microsoft and has been pulled out of the consumer channel. Hold off on approving this update in WSUS until it's been revised.

Susan

34 Posts

http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/MS12-016
- Reason for Revision: V1.1 (February 14, 2012): Added an entry
to the update FAQ to announce a detection change for KB2668562
for Microsoft Silverlight 4 when installed on Windows clients
and servers to correct an installation issue. This is a detection
change only. There were no changes to the security update files.
Customers who have already successfully updated their systems
do not need to take any action.
- Originally posted: February 14, 2012
- Updated: February 14, 2012

Susan

34 Posts

The CVE for MS12-013 is wrong (that's actually the CVE for MS12-014). The proper CVE should be CVE-2012-0150

Anonymous